Our school hours prioritize healthy mornings for growing bodies, honoring the need for good sleep and plenty of downtime. Our doors open at 8:30 a.m., with the school day starting promptly at 8:50 a.m. Dismissal is at 3:15 p.m. every day, with the exception of our 1:15 p.m. Wednesday dismissal. This midweek, 2-hour early dismissal allows parents to invest in extracurricular activities without overcrowding evenings and provides the time required for faculty and staff to collaborate on our unique curriculum and engage in professional development. We also offer before care beginning at 8 a.m. and after care that extends until 5:30 p.m. each day.

MTThF: 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.

W: 8:30-1:15 p.m.

Before Care: 8:00- 8:30 a.m daily.

After Care: after school until 5:30 p.m daily.

Our current class sizes range from 12-20 students. Kindergarten is always staffed with two teachers to provide the needed support for children making the big transition to a full-day class schedule. Classes are provided with additional support based on both overall class size and need.

We use restorative practices at Cambridge School, meaning we train teachers to address feelings through caring questions and careful listening that guide students in identifying their own thought processes and emotions, as well as those of others. This helps them reflect on natural consequences and the process of relational rupture and repair. Teachers and staff facilitate discussions that reach the heart of the behavior, rather than settling for surface-level behavior modification. Teachers address student behavior in the moment with redirection and re-engagement and follow up with students as needed to guide them to reflect on their decisions and repair relationships where needed.

Parent involvement enriches our school and strengthens our community bonds in significant ways we couldn’t achieve otherwise. We’re so grateful for parents who organize our talent show and student experiences (like Narnia Day in first grade) that make Cambridge a unique, fun, and rich learning environment! Cambridge invites parents to share six hours of their time a month (three hours a month for single-parent households) to support the school in a variety of ways. Field trips, prayer support, organizing events, lunch and recess duty, subbing, native plant cultivation, and library read-alouds are just a handful of ways Cambridge parents invest in the lives of our students. 

Technology (in the form of occasional learning-related videos to amplify concepts) is used very judiciously in our lower elementary. Students have the option of doing 1-2 projects digitally starting in third grade, and students begin typing practice during the summer following fourth grade as they are introduced to Chromebooks and receive their first safe, secure school email address in fifth grade. The supervised use of Chromebooks is limited to school, and students are not permitted to take them home. Phones are not allowed at any time during the school day and must be turned off and remain in the student’s backpack if brought to school. If parents need to contact their child during the day, communication is handled through the school office.

We are a Christ-centered school, so faith and truth are infused in everything we do and say. Because we believe we are made in the image of a good, powerful, just, and wise God, every part of our curriculum flows from that truth. Rather than treating faith as a separate subject, it naturally shapes what and how we learn, with everything viewed through the lens of Christ as Creator. Each day begins with a devotional study that helps students understand the overarching narrative of Scripture. That truth is then woven into everything they learn about in history, science, literature, and art. Our chapel curriculum also reinforces this faith-rooted understanding of the world and our place in it. We want to communicate to children that the Bible isn’t a separate piece of learning to add on, but the well from which all other truth flows from.